Caution for artificial sweeteners, especially for children

More and more artificial sweeteners are used in our food with approval from the FDA. The consumer believes this will help with weight loss, but that’s not the case.

“The food industry responds to the consumer demand, and increasingly replaces sugar with artificial sweeteners in order to provide tasty goods with lower sugar content. Most consumers expect that weight loss will result from switching to artificial sweeteners (because they contain no or fewer calories), but paradoxically the opposite may happen.”

A very small study showed children have much more of these artificial sweeteners in their systems than adults. Infants are ingesting it through breast milk and their systems may not be able to process it, plus it may influence their preferences for sweetness when they are older.

Unfortunately, this article does not cite the proper source, but says the research is in Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry, and year is not given. http://www.news-medical.net/news/20161024/Study-measures-amount-of-artificial-sweeteners-in-the-blood-streamc2a0of-adults-and-kids.aspx